NASA’s successful mission in late September to change the trajectory of the asteroid Dimorphos made world headlines.

Bob Grubic announced that he is retiring as CEO of Harrisburg-based engineering firm Herbert, Rowland & Grubic Inc. at the end of this year, after 49 years with the company.

The rate of increase in technological advances has been geometric, not linear.  Old school engineering practices have morphed into those associated with a sophisticated business model.   

Elizabethtown College was recently awarded a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to launch the Center for Equity and Sustainability in Engineering, in partnership with Vermont’s Greenway Institute.

Mechanicsburg-based bridge engineering firm Modjeski and Masters announced its acquisition Monday of Flanders Engineering Group Inc., a structural engineering company headquartered in Middleburg, Florida.

Recent hires in the Midstate include: Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators, Eckert Seamans and United Church of Christ Homes.

Businesses from across the midstate named a number of new hires across industries such as finance, associations and real estate.

The historic Slate Hill Road bridge, which connects Cumberland and York counties in Fairview Township, has reopened after an emergency rehabilitation project. 

Dillsburg, York County-based NTM Engineering announced this week that it has completed an acquisition with a woman-owned environmental consulting firm in Delaware County. 

The Harrisburg office of Sowinski Sullivan, a transit architectural and engineering firm, has been acquired by KCI Technologies Inc. 

In every leadership role I’ve held at RETTEW , I’ve learned something new – about the company and the industry, about our clients and our employees, and even about myself.

The design plan for a massive levee system rehabilitation project at Harrisburg International Airport (HIA) was shelved for nearly a decade because of its cost by the Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority (SARAA). 

Wormleysburg, Cumberland County-based real estate development and consulting firm, Integrated Development Partners (IDP), has separated its civil engineering and building design services into a new entity. 

York-based architecture and engineering firm Buchart Horn has acquired Uni-Tec Consulting Engineers in State College, a firm specialized in water, wastewater and municipal engineering, as well as land development, systems commissioning and energy services. 

Within the last month, three Central Pennsylvania companies announced that they had or would be buying back part or all of their stock to give to their employees as part of new Employee Stock Ownership Plans, known as ESOPs.